Lime Snowball Cookies, for Ballers Only

For every day in December through Christmas, we’re sharing a cookie recipe. Because we believe that a cookie a day keeps the Grinch away.

(Credit: Ashley Rodriguez)

Imagine a snowball. White, smooth, the kind you get when the snow’s halfway between stick-to-your-windshield and total powder, the kind that squeaks when you try to pack it a little bit tighter. Now imagine how funny it would be to either hit someone or get hit by that snowball. The poof on impact, the goofy stumble in the drifts, the laugh when you realize some of the snow got down their collar–the ideal snowball fight, and the ideal way to spend a snowy day off.

If you could distill that snowball and that day into something edible, you’d get these Lime Snowball Cookies. The zing of the cold and the wet is replaced with the tongue tingling effects of lime juice, lime zest, and lime oil combined in one crumbly butterball–just don’t mix your metaphors too much and chuck one of these at a loved one. They’re much better for eating than fighting.